Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk
by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even ...
Environment
Why green capitalism can’t work
Book review: Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work by Daniel Tanuro from Resistance Books • by Norman Lockhart • I was glad I invested £10 for this book, even though ...
A nuclear nightmare is possible
Roz Paterson looks at new report on the dangers of nuclear weapons convoys • In 2011, a goods lorry suffered a blow-out at the busy Reith interchange, near Bellshill, ...
Tackling climate change can create jobs
Roz Paterson looks at a trade union-based plan • It’s not often you read a booklet about climate change and actually feel like whooping with excitement at its vision of ...
Chernobyl: 30 years on
Roz Paterson looks at the disaster and what has happened since • Thirty years ago this week, a reactor exploded at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and for a few days, this ...
Land reform: much remains to be done
by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have ...
Climate change: action is urgent
by Roz Paterson • It’s been a hell of a winter. Actually, where the hell was the winter? The official start of spring is nearly upon us, yet it seems that the season ...
Fracking fight at heart of campaign to break with fossil fuels
by Kevin McVey, lead RISE candidate, Central Scotland Across the globe on 31 January, people took to the streets to demonstrate their opposition to fracking. Action took ...
Concern grows over North East oil transfer risks
by Roz Paterson In recent years, the North East coast has become as well-known for its Bottlenose dolphins as for its fishing industry, attracting tens of thousands of ...
Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens
by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says ...
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